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This Entrepreneur Built a Business on Values-Based Investing Before It Was Cool

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Through Talgra he educates others about how they, too, can align their money and their beliefs through more socially responsible investing. In 2007, Kaminer left the family business and created Talgra. “I For example, how much water a company uses, how much they recycle, or the diversity of its employees and board of directors.

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A Look at How Brad D. Smith Motivated and Inspired Intuit Employees

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It’s a different world than when we started as a company in 1983, and we’ll need to do things differently if we want to be one of the world’s most innovative, fastest-growing companies,” Smith told SUCCESS. His favorite charities are those helping young children with special needs and advancing educational programs—including his own.

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How Three Post-Secondary Programs Are Setting Autistic Individuals on a Path to Success

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When Gary Moore’s son, Andrew, turned 11 in 2007, Moore worried about his future. Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act , children with disabilities under 3 may receive early intervention services. From ages 3 to 21, children can receive special education services through their local public schools.

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Once Upon a Time in Marketing: The Power of Storytelling

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Position your employees as the hero of the company story to achieve goals, identify vendors and partners as the hero to bolster synergies, or find ways to insert the customer into the role of hero or heroine. What saddens Smith is that this story was never shared outside the company. “A Case Studies. Trupanion: Making insurance cuddly.

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The “World Footprints” Podcast Shares Untold Stories for Socially-Conscious Travelers

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Within three years of owning their travel agency, Bronze World, their company was on track to earn a quarter million dollars. Despite their financial success, they decided to focus instead on their travel podcast that they created in 2007, and they closed their travel agency in 2009.

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4 Books to Help You Reflect, Replenish and Grow this Month

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Authors Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal and Jeremy Schwartz are the founders of Summit, a global events company that has worked with Jeff Bezos, Shonda Rhimes, Brené Brown and Kendrick Lamar. Andy Dunn founded the men’s clothing company Bonobos in 2007 as a student in his second year at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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SUCCESS Celebrates 125 Years of Progress, Positive Thinking and Personal Growth

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Marden helmed the magazine until 1912, at which point the publication was acquired by The National Post Company, which published The National Post , a more politically driven bi-weekly magazine. Then, following an ownership change in 2007, SUCCESS named another woman to the post of chief editor: Deborah Heisz. “I

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